What if everything you knew and were used to‚ such as friends‚ family and way of life‚ suddenly changed? This happened to me when my family moved to Puerto Rico for the first time. All the things I was used to in my hometown of Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ all the people I knew suddenly changed overnight. At first I didn’t think it was going to be that different. But I soon found out that there were so many differences‚ big and small. One of the biggest differences was the way of life in general. The
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Professor ENC 1101 16 September 2014 This happen to me a month ago when my boss called me for a meeting in his office‚ to talk just with my in private. The first thought in my mind was “I’m fired” but I did not know why or what was the reason for that decision. While my boss entered the office‚ my head was full of many thoughts about why me‚ and how will I get other job like this. In the meantime‚ my boss asked me about my family with a big smile; this is was so weird for me‚ assuming that
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Fadi Hana English 1180 /S1624 February 8‚ 2012 What Made Me Today Growing up back home since I was a little kid I loved playing soccer. You might ask me where back home is. I am from Iraq specifically a small city in the north called Mosul. I kept on playing soccer through elementary and middle school. I had dreams of becoming a professional soccer player and play in the European professional soccer league. When I moved to the states and started high school I figured this would be my chance
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Tom’s Lament. Old Tom limped down the street in the warm rain. He was heading for the bar on the corner of Henderson Boulevard where he regularly went for an ice cold brew on hot summer afternoons. Come to think of it‚ he didn’t so much drink his beer‚ as sit in the corner nursing the same glass for hours at a time watching those perfectly round chilled droplets hit the mahogany countertop. A young sporting type‚ who looked remarkably similar to his youngest boy‚ approached him and offered him
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The Most Significant Experience which Made Me Who I am today. Life is an opportunity. It is a cycle of most valuable and treasured memories that even a ninety year old and a crippled person will not be able to erase and forget. It is an endless road that is full of laughter‚ sweat‚ tearful and most of all loneliness. The land was extremely barren for my eyes. The blue angry waves of the sea made me feel so anxious to paddle my daddy’s canoe to collect sea urchins and sea cucumbers‚ that I
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Thursday‚ November 12‚ 2015‚ at approximately 0333 hours. I responded to Waffle House‚ 1170 West Avenue for a disturbance in progress. The caller advised Conyers Communication that a verbal altercation had taken place. They then stayed the subject left in a silver pickup truck towards the Motel 6‚ 1351 Dogwood Drive. As I patrolled the area‚ I noticed a silver Dodge Ram‚ Ga tag CCN8347‚ had left the Waffle House parking lot. The vehicle made a left onto Dogwood Drive and continued towards the
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Patriarchy in The Birth House In “Where Are We?” Allan Johnson defines patriarchy as “male dominated in that positions of authority-political‚ economic‚ legal‚ religious‚ educational‚ military‚ domestic-are generally reserved for men…when a women finds her way into such positions‚ people tend to be struck by the exception of the rule and wonder how she’ll measure up against a man in the same position”(5). Apart from the more “caring” types of work‚ men are sought to be the more intellectual
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Computer [pic] A computer is a programmable machine that receives input‚ stores and automatically manipulates data‚ and provides output in a useful format. The first electronic computers were developed in the mid-20th century (1940–1945). Originally‚ they were the size of a large room‚ consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs).[1] Modern computers based on integrated circuits are millions to billions of times more capable than the early machines‚ and occupy
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Samantha Martin Mrs. Nunnery ENG 111-980W 23 Sept. 2011 My First Swimming Lesson Learning new things can sometimes be scary. Swimming‚ for me‚ was one of those new things. I knew swimming was going to be important in my life. The hard part was learning how to swim. I thought it would be god exercise‚ and a good social experience‚ I could spend time with my friends by the pool. My parents were not patient enough with me‚ seeing I did not really like the water. So they put me into a swimming
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My Graduation Graduation day is something many people will never forget. One of my biggest moments in my life was the day of graduation and the weeks leading up to it. It was one of the most exciting but nerve-racking moments in my high school years. Hearing my name being called to receive my diploma made things so surreal. I realized I was walking toward a new beginning in life and at that moment I realized how fast time had past. I was no longer a child anymore. The weeks leading up to graduation
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